thanks for all the friendly greetings, this is strange... my friend says he has the same issue as me.
i put the weather slider up to max (towards the sunny icon) and the fog slider all the way down in the map editor thing, all settings are on max, i updated to the latest drivers for my 8800gtx, running windows xp... I don't know what is making it so foggy
my friend sent me this pic he took, same issue:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4888745/utes.jpg
it seems the difference is single player and multiplayer, when doing a singleplayer thing the view distance is great. is there someplace that needs to be edited to host maps with max view distance?
downloaded this for client changes:
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7139